A horizontal zigzag frieze wraps itself around the Praça do Comércio’s facade. It is intersected with downward-pointing ...

The remains of a Maya city that dates back nearly 3,000 years has been found in northern Guatemala, and its name holds a ...

An ancient city from the Byzantine era, once thought lost to time, has been rediscovered in southern Jordan. Known as Tharais ...

More than 18,000 artefacts that have been excavated and documented from Keeladi over eight rounds of excavations ...

Idealism, a hunger for power and a wish to prosper have driven some of the earliest efforts to build a world order.

Collectively valued at $500,000, the Mesopotamian relics are believed to have been looted and at least one was linked to the ...

A recent study reveals that human teeth evolved from the sensory armor of ancient fish that lived 465 million years ago.

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

This photo taken on April 8, 2025 shows a view of the Ziggurat of Ur in al-Nasiriyah, Iraq. The ancient city of Ur, which is famous for the Ziggurat of Ur built by Sumerians, is believed to be one ...

What Woolley had uncovered was a strange new burial practice that had become the fashion in Ur just as it became what we might now recognize as a city-state: a dense settlement of people organized ...

Leonard Woolley’s discovery of intact Mesopotamian royal tombs dating back more than 4,000 years in the ancient city of Ur, located 140 miles southeast of Babylon in modern-day Iraq. The tombs ...